Tips And Tricks For Surviving A Mental Illness #6

AA, Acid, Alcohol, Alcoholics, Amblify, Anonymous, Anorexia, Anti-depressants, Anti-psychotics, Bipolar, Bisexual, Booze, Boys/Men, Cocaine, Dead, Depression, Downers, drugs, Dyke, Ecstacy, Fag, Family, Friends, Grrls/Women, Health, Heroin, Hiding, Homophobia, Homosexual, Kristin Bell, Life, Lithium, LSD, Lunatic, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mood Stabilizers, NA, Narcotics, Problems, Prozac, Psych Meds, Queer, Schizophrenia, Surviving, Tips & Tricks, Trannie

neurons

I know that this next tip will wash over some of you just like water and you won’t be able to take it in. You’ll laugh or cry and think to yourself that I don’t understand or that you don’t have the strength that is needed. But, these are, afterall, tips and tricks for SURVIVING. So you know what is next. For many of us with mind-numbing depression and hopelessness it often seems like suicide is the only and best way to relieve the pain involved with living. So tip number six is:

US Air Force Shows Lame-Assness

Air Force, Boys/Men, Discrimination, Grrls/Women, Hate, Kristin Bell, Lame-assness, Misogyny, People, Rape, Safety, Sex Offender, Shame, Surviving, US Gov't vs Lame-assness, US Government, Violence

air force logo

Well, I cannot believe this one! I’m trying to limit the points for the US versus lame-assness game to one point per incident, but these incidents are just so bad I feel like awarding more points. In this incident the United States Air Force is

Ambushed at the Starbucks!

Ambush, Body Image, Discrimination, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Fat Hatred, Kristin Bell, Life, Lunatic, People, Shame, Starbucks, Stress, Surviving, Weight, Weightloss, Weightloss Industry

ambush

I guess it just isn’t my day today, or maybe it is. I have something concrete to write about. A blazing horrible example of fat hatred and overzealous skinny people trying to convert me into one of them. Here’s the story: I went to Starbucks

Steps To Body Acceptance #2

Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Boys/Men, Bulimia, Compulsive Eating, Compulsive Exercising, Counselor, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Grrls/Women, Hate, Health, Hiding, Kristin Bell, Life, Measurements, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Obsessions, Problems, Secrecy, Self, Shame, Social Worker, Steps To Body Acceptance, Surviving, Therapist, Thin, Weight, Weightloss, Weightloss Industry

tennis player

Okay, I do have to warn you that this advice is not for the weak of heart. I’m not an anorexic nutritionist giving you advice about how you can lose weight and then love yourself. I have my own baggage and my own prejudices.

Love Thy Self

Fat, Fun, Glasses, Goofy, Humor, Kiss, Kristin Bell, Mac, PhotoBooth, Self

self love

What is this a picture of? Two girls kissing? Twins kissing?

Tragic Bridge Collapse!

Bridge, Collapse, Dead, Engineering, Injured, Kristin Bell, Lame-assness, Minnesota, People, Safety, US Gov't vs Lame-assness, US Government, Video

If you haven’t seen it yet, you should watch this video of the bridge that collapsed in Minnesota. What a horrible situation! What is even more lame-ass is that

Steps To Body Acceptance #1

Anorexia, Binge Eating, Body Image, Boys/Men, Bulimia, Compulsive Eating, Compulsive Exercising, Discrimination, Eating Disorders, EDNOS, Fat, Fat Acceptance, Grrls/Women, Hate, Health, Kristin Bell, Life, Measurements, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Obsessions, Problems, Scales, Secrecy, Shame, Smash It, Steps To Body Acceptance, Surviving, Thin, Tips & Tricks, Weight, Weightloss, Weightloss Industry

ballerina

Well, I thought I’d create a new series here. Not only am I a crazy person, but I also have battled with eating issues for most of my life, well, all of my life. I can’t remember a day when “my weight” wasn’t a topic of conversation or a point of shame.

Tips And Tricks For Surviving A Mental Illness #5

AA, Acid, Alcohol, Alcoholics, Amblify, Anonymous, Anti-depressants, Anti-psychotics, Bipolar, Bong, Booze, Buspar, Cocaine, Coke, Counselor, Depakote, Depression, Downers, drugs, Ecstacy, Family, Friends, Geodon, Haldol, Haldol DEC, Haldol Decanoate, Health, Heroin, Kristin Bell, Life, Lithium, LSD, MAO Inhibitors, Marijuana, Mary Jane, Mental Health, Mental Illness, Mood Stabilizers, NA, Narcotics, Navane, Paxil, Pot, Prescription Meds, Problems, Prozac, Psych Meds, Psychiatrist, Psychiatry, Psycho, Psychosis, Risperdal, Schizophrenia, Seroquel, Smack, Social Worker, Teetotaller, Therapist, Tips & Tricks, Trazadone, Trilifon, Uppers, Weed, Wellbutrin, Zoloft, Zyprexa

brainscan

Okay, I know I’m in trouble with this tip. I know there are some of you out there who are NOT going to like this one at all! Still I have to say it, because it is an issue.

The Coolest Bike Helmets Ever!

Bikes, Cool, Cycling, Helmets, Kristin Bell, Nutcase, Riding, Safety

bike helmet

I’m nuts over these nutcase bike helmets! Go to www.nutcasehelmets.com and see what I am talking about. But you can look at some of them here…

I’ve Got LOMO! Have You Got LOMO?

Camera, Holga, Lens, Lomo, Movement, Photography, Relaxation, Russian, Spontaneous, Vintage

holga starter kit

Yay! It arrived yesterday and I’m still unpacking it! My Holga Lomo camera kit came! I’m so excited, but I don’t know if I loaded the film correctly.